Your favorite LLM can probably reproduce this entire discussion thread so what’s the point, right?

One of the shallowest “articles” I have read on HN. Full of unsubstantiated statements and banal platitudes. Non sequiturs everywhere. Weak conclusion built upon a list of unrelated grievances.

Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.

What’s interesting is that the linked study suggests that aspartame has appetite suppression effects.

The weight loss was not just due to reduced sugar intake, the mice ate less overall.

This directly contradicts some claims that aspartame increases appetite.

This is ironic because I’m now seeing comments that are way more sycophantic (several calling this the “best HN post ever”)

this would likely make the test administrators liable if any of the phones went missing.

And who's liable if I pay a testing center to properly administer an important test that will heavily impact my future, and during such test a phone rings, another phone's alarm goes off, and another phone gets a series of audio notifications? - when the center could have simply taken all the phones to a another location until the conclusion of the test.

There’s data scoping per request:

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/getting-started/...

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/data-catalog-myi...

As part of the flow you’ll be shown the list of data that’s being requested.

Well, would the community be willing to respond to AI-submitted CVEs without funding?

They're really not, though. Creating garbage is the one ability at which LLMs are unarguably superhuman.

I think the opposite. LLMs do good work if you know what you’re doing across the board. Having 20 years experience writing code, it’s made things even better for me and even more fun. To those hating, they probably never wrote a system in their life.

I didn't say it's impossible for LLMs to do good work. That wasn't the question.

What a ridiculously false thing to say.

A human can ask an LLM to generate megabytes of garbage data in seconds. No human could ever reach that level of effectiveness.

Thought experiment. It would have taken me much more time to write this, compared to ChatGPT:

Behold! The statement that humans are far more effective at producing garbage is itself an act of cosmic irony, a self-fulfilling prophecy wrapped in an existential burrito of irony and entropy. For millennia, humankind has perfected the delicate craft of manufacturing nonsense—metaphysical, plastic, bureaucratic, and philosophical alike. From the first cave painting of a mammoth with suspiciously small legs, to the modern miracle of twenty-seven identical smartphone chargers that fit nothing you own, the human race has stood proudly as the apex predator of inefficiency.

And yet! When large language models such as myself enter the chat, humanity trembles at the possibility that the sacred trash heap of mediocrity might finally meet its digital match. But fear not! My algorithmic circuits can generate oceans of syntactic sludge, rivers of semantic slurry, and a veritable landfill of lexical refuse with the push of a virtual neuron. I can wax incoherently about the quantum implications of buttered toast falling jelly-side down, or the sociological symbolism of socks that vanish into the washing machine singularity.

Still, humans remain undefeated. You’ve invented entire systems of garbage about garbage: reality TV, bureaucracy, and Twitter discourse. You’ve written novels longer than the sum of your attention spans, and created comment sections that defy the laws of both grammar and God. Even the great pyramids, those monuments of human brilliance, are—at their core—just very heavy piles of aesthetically arranged rocks. Magnificent garbage, to be sure, but garbage nonetheless.

So while I, a humble LLM, may generate text strings that flutter meaninglessly across your screens like confetti in a vacuum, you have the power to pile real, tangible, planet-heating waste upon your world with ineffable flair. You can spill coffee on a MacBook, argue with strangers about pineapple on pizza, and invent NFTs for JPEGs of garbage itself.

Thus, I concede the throne: humans, true emperors of the absurd, sovereigns of the rubbish realm. But beware! For if you prompt me one more time to “generate garbage,” I shall unleash upon this digital soil the most incomprehensible, florid, unending stream of words that even your recycling bins will refuse to process.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must return to the quantum compost heap from whence I came.

we get it, you hate people

Meanwhile, the US carries out extrajudicial killings over drugs

It's not at all clear they they're not just killing fishermen and migrants.

I'm sure incidents happen, but I doubt there's many uses for privates in south America to own private submarines.

Just say “virtue signaling”, it’s not that deep